Podman socket support #383

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2025-10-31T15:10:23-05:00

GiteaMirror commented

2025-10-31 15:10:23 -05:00

Originally created by @atakiya on GitHub (May 25, 2025).

Problem

Currently komodo periphery can only be used as a container on podman setups by rebinding the host's /run/podman/podman.sock to /var/run/docker.sock

This isn't possible with the systemd variant of komodo periphery as there is no config variable to change the listen socket.

Why?

Better podman support would be nice for anyone not using docker

Originally created by @atakiya on GitHub (May 25, 2025). ## Problem Currently komodo periphery can only be used as a container on podman setups by rebinding the host's `/run/podman/podman.sock` to `/var/run/docker.sock` This isn't possible with the systemd variant of komodo periphery as there is no config variable to change the listen socket. ## Why? Better podman support would be nice for anyone not using docker

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2025-10-31 15:10:23 -05:00

GiteaMirror commented

2025-10-31 15:10:24 -05:00

@MrOwen commented on GitHub (Aug 10, 2025):

This is also a problem on rootless docker (using user systemd periphery). I didn't rebind, I simply symlinked /var/run/docker.sock to /var/run/user/1000/docker.sock. It's not my favorite solution but works for now..

@MrOwen commented on GitHub (Aug 10, 2025): This is also a problem on rootless docker (using user systemd periphery). I didn't rebind, I simply symlinked `/var/run/docker.sock` to `/var/run/user/1000/docker.sock`. It's not my favorite solution but works for now..

GiteaMirror commented

2025-10-31 15:10:24 -05:00

@mbecker20 commented on GitHub (Aug 11, 2025):

Did you try Environment="DOCKER_HOST=/run/podman/podman.sock" in the periphery.service systemd file?

@mbecker20 commented on GitHub (Aug 11, 2025): Did you try `Environment="DOCKER_HOST=/run/podman/podman.sock"` in the `periphery.service` systemd file?

GiteaMirror commented

2025-10-31 15:10:25 -05:00

@atakiya commented on GitHub (Aug 15, 2025):

Did you try Environment="DOCKER_HOST=/run/podman/podman.sock" in the periphery.service systemd file?

Yeah that works. Thank you!

For anyone stumbling over this and wondering how to get periphery to cooperate step-by-step:

make sure the podman socket is enabled (systemctl enable --now podman.socket)
as mentioned in the above comment, make sure the service file has the DOCKER_HOST env variable set to the podman socket (either edit service file, or add drop-in)
make sure to have docker cli shims installed (e.g. dnf install podman-docker on fedora)
restart periphery service

@atakiya commented on GitHub (Aug 15, 2025): > Did you try `Environment="DOCKER_HOST=/run/podman/podman.sock"` in the `periphery.service` systemd file? Yeah that works. Thank you! --- For anyone stumbling over this and wondering how to get periphery to cooperate step-by-step: - make sure the podman socket is enabled (`systemctl enable --now podman.socket`) - as mentioned in the above comment, make sure the service file has the `DOCKER_HOST` env variable set to the podman socket (either edit service file, or add drop-in) - make sure to have docker cli shims installed (e.g. `dnf install podman-docker` on fedora) - restart periphery service